Officials, including agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, also searched Awada's 4,990-square-foot-home on Vermont Avenue, along the Red Run Golf Club, in Royal Oak.

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The raids began around noon, said DEA spokesman and Special Agent Rich Isaacson.

"We've got multiple law enforcement individuals assisting with the search," he said.

Isaacson declined to elaborate on the nature of the raid because it is part of a continuing investigation.

FBI spokeswoman Simon Shaykhet declined to comment.

"We just stood by as the DEA served a search warrant," Royal Oak Police Chief Corrigan O'Donohue said.

Warren Police Commissioner Jere Green said federal officials notified his department in advance of the raid and requested that uniformed patrol officers be present, a common practice when federal agencies execute search warrants.

According to a published report, Awada was arrested and scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in U.S. District Court.

Awada, 43, is a Warren native and the brother of Turkia Mullin. News reports of a $200,000 severance paid to Mullin when she left Wayne County government to become the CEO of Detroit Metropolitan Airport was followed by a wide-ranging investigation of the county government. The ongoing probe was launched by the FBI in 2011.

According to Midwest Family Medicine's website, Awada received his medical doctorate degree from Ross University School of Medicine, and he is board-certified in family and geriatric medicine. The practice touts itself as "big enough to cure, small enough to care."